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of Paul Brönnimann (1913-1993)
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- Fondation Paul Brönnimann, Musée
d'Histoire Naturelle à Genève, Suisse,
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- Paul Brönnimann studied at the University of Basel and
was a student of manfred Reichel. He worked about larger benthic
foraminifera like Tertiary Orbitoids, Miogypsinids and Discocyclina.
In the late fourties to fifties he was located at Trinidad Leaseholds
Ltd, and then in Cuba and worked as a stratigrapher togethzer
with many renown micropaleontologists, among them Hans Bolli,
Hans G. Kugler, Hans H. Renz, Pedro Bermudez, for example. Later,
he was located in Liby, France, and Switzerland. More about Paul Brönnimann
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Type collections:
- Type- and reference collection
to Brönnimann,
P. (1940). Ueber die tertiären Orbitoididen und
die Miogypsiniden von Nordwest Marokko. Schweizerische Paläontologische
Abhandlungen 63:113 pages, 11 plates.
- The collection contains the hypotypoids and paratypoids of
the described specimens in thin sections, various rocks, Fema-cells,
and in washed residues from profiles I through VI described by
A. Senn (see also collns of A. Senn from NW Morocco in the "Indonesia
collection, K2"). There is also a major collection of thin
sections (8 boxes), which belong to the same publication, deposited
in K3/A6/1/33.
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- Holotypes to
- Asterocyclina praestellaris Brönnimann (1940),
- Miogypsina basraensis Brönnimann (1940),
- Miogypsinoides complanata var. mauretannica
Brönnimann (1940),
- Miogypsina mediterranea excentrica Brönnimann
(1940).
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- Type- and reference collection
to Brönnimann,
P. (1941). Eine Discocyclina mit multilocularem
Embryonalapparat aus dem Eocaen von Kressenberg. Eclogae geol.
Helv. 34(2):305-319. Collection containing the holotype and paratypes
of Discocyclina strati-emanuelis Brönnimann (1941).
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- Type- and reference collection
to Brönnimann,
P. (1942). Eine Proporocyclina aus dem Eocaen
von Venezuela. Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen
63:1-17, 2 plates. Ex Colln H.G. Kugler and collaborators (Northern
Venezuela Petroleum Company, NVP). A collection of thin sections
and washed residues, including the holotype, paratypes and not
illustrated specimens of Proporocyclina pertenuis Brönnimann
(1942).
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- Type collection to Brönnimann, P. (1949). Pflanzenbewohnende
tropische Foraminiferen nebst Beschreibung von Cymbalophora
tobagoensis n.sp. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft
Basel, vol. 60, p. 179-185.
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tobagoensis (foraminifera); the holotype is deposited at
the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
(collection Cushmann).
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for which there exists a T.L.L. type collection, which is deposited
at the NMB in H.G. Kugler's stratigraphic collection of Trinidad.
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- Type collection to Brönnimann, P. (1951a). Die
Mundöffnungen bei Asterigerina carinata d'Orbigny
1839. Eclogae geol. Helv. 44(2):469-474. Included with the collection
is the original manuscript and figures.
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- C29703: Astigerina carinata (Fig.
1)
- C29704: Astigerina carinata (Fig.
2a)
- C29705: Astigerina carinata (Fig.
2b)
- C29706: Astigerina carinata (Fig.
2c)
- C29707: Astigerina carinata (Fig.
2d)
- C29708: Astigerina carinata (Fig.
3a)
- C29709: Astigerina carinata (Fig.
3b)
- C29710: Astigerina carinata (Fig.
3c)
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- Type collection to Brönnimann, P. (1967). Pseudotextulariella
courtionensis, n.sp., from the Valanginian, of well Courtion
1, Courtion, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. Archives des Sciences
(Genève), vol. 19, fasc. 3, Sept.-Déc. 1966.
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- Holotypus and paratypes of Pseudotextulariella courtionensis
Brönnimann (1967)
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Reference collections:
- Reference collection to Brönnimann,
P. (1938). Ueber mikrosphärische Asterocyclinen
aus NW-Marokko. Eclogae geol. Helv. 31(2):303-312. Collection
of hypotypoids in thin sections.
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- Reference collection to Brönnimann,
P. (1944). Ein neues Subgenus von Orbitocyclina
aus Iran nebst Bemerkungen über Helicolepidina Tobler
und verwandte Formen. Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen
64:1-42, 3 plates. Leg. H.G. Schenck, don. P. Brönnimann.
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- This collection contains the hypotypoids and paratypes to
Orbitocyclinoides schencki Brönnimann (1944), and
a paratypoid to Helicolepidina spiralis Tobler (1922)
var. trinitatis Brönnimann (1944). See the collection
of Tobler,
A. (1922a) for the holotype of H. spiralis var. trinitatis.
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- Reference collection to Brönnimann,
P. (1945a). Zur Morphologie von Aktinocyclina
Gümbel 1868. Eclogae geol. Helv. 38(2):560-579. This is
a collection with orientated thin sections and hypotypoids to
Actinocyclina radians (D'Arch.) and Asterocyclina stellaris
(Brunner).
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- Reference collection to Brönnimann,
P. (1945b). Zur Frage der verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen
zwischen Discocyclina s.s. und Asterocyclina. Eclogae
geol. Helv. 38(2):579-617. Collection conaining thin sections
with hypotypoids.
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- Reference collection to Brönnimann,
P. and Rigassi, D. (1963). Contribution to the geology
and paleontology of the area of the city of La Habana, Cuba,
and its surroundings. Eclogae geol. Helv. 56(1): 193-480, 26
plates.
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- Collection including rocks, washed residues, thin sections
and picked materials. A listing of the samples held at the NMB
is with the collection.
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- 3.) Originals
to manuscripts:
- At the NMB deposited are a number of manuscripts of Paul
Brönnimann together with the original plates and drawings,
which are curated for historical reasons, or for reasons of reference
to the respective Brönnimann collections, but which are
deposited at other museums.
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- Manuscript and original figures
to Brönnimann,
P. (1950a). Tremastegina, ein neues Genus der
Familie Astigerinidae d'Orbigny. Eclogae geol. Helv. 43(2):255-265.
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- Manuscript and original figures
to Brönnimann,
P. (1951b). Remarks on the embryonic chambers of upper
Eocene Asterocyclinidae of Trinidad, B.W.I. Eclogae geol.
Helv. 44(2):474-486.
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- Manuscript and original fotographic
plates and drawings to Brönnimann, P. and Brown, N.K. (1955).
Taxonomy of the Globotruncanidae. Eclogae geol. Helv.
48(2):503-561, plates 20-24.
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- Manuscript and original photographic
prints to Brönnimann, P. (1958). New Pseudorbitoids
from the Upper Cretaceous of Guatemala, Texas and Florida. Eclogae
geol. Helv. 51(2): 422-437, 1 plate.
- Reference to:
- Pseudorbitoides ? chubbi Brönnimann (1958)
- Vaughanina guatemalensis Brönnimann (1958)
- Vaughanina jordanae Brönnimann (1958)
- The type specimens and the other figured specimens are deposited
at the United States National Museum (USNM), Washington, D.C.
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